The slight intrenchment upon individual freedom.
Southey.
In*trep"id (?), a. [L. intrepidus: cf. F. intrépide. See In- not, and
Trepidation.] Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold;
brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit.
Syn. -- Fearless; dauntless; resolute; brave; courageous; daring;
valiant; heroic; doughty.
In`tre*pid"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. intrépidité.] The quality or state of
being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor.
Sir Roger had acquitted himself of two or three sentences with a
look of much business and great intrepidity.
Addison.
Syn. -- Courage; heroism; bravery; fortitude; gallantry; valor. See
Courage, Heroism.
In*trep"id*ly (?), adv. In an intrepid manner; courageously;
resolutely.
In"tri*ca*ble (?), a. [See Intricate.] Entangling. [Obs.] Shelton.
In"tri*ca*cy (?), n.; pl. Intricacies (#). [From Intricate.] The state
or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution;
complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the
intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a
cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way.
Milton.
In"tri*cate (?), a. [L. intricatus, p. p. of intricare to entangle,
perplex. Cf. Intrigue, Extricate.] Entangled; involved; perplexed;
complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as,
intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the
understanding with the utmost clearness.
Addison.
The nature of man is intricate.
Burke.
Syn. -- Intricate, Complex, Complicated. A thing is complex when it is
made up of parts; it is complicated when those parts are so many, or so
arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is intricate when
it has numerous windings and confused involutions which it is hard to
follow out. What is complex must be resolved into its parts; what is
complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is intricate must be
unraveled.
In"tri*cate (?), v. t. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
[Obs.]
It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise discourses.
Jer. Taylor.
In"tri*cate*ly (?), adv. In an intricate manner.
In"tri*cate*ness, n. The state or quality of being intricate;
intricacy.